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Speaking at the Family Planning Summit in London, Coalition Director John Skibiak committed the Coalition to supporting upstream supply chain improvements to ensure the product flow from procurement all the way down into the hands...

Two new documents explain the forecast methodologies for implants and DMPA IM that have been developed by the Coalition’s Coordinated Supply Planning (CSP) group. There is a growing need within our field to better understand both...

The measurement of stockouts is passing a historic milestone with the introduction of a new resource — the Coalition’s recent publication of “A Harmonized Suite of Indicators to Measure Stockouts and Availability of Contraceptives”. The culmination of a more than two-year collective effort by members of the Systems Strengthening Working Group, this guidance document defines indicators which will encourage measurement of stockouts using broadly comparable metrics, the backbone of the Take Stock campaign dedicated to make contraceptive stockouts a thing of the past.

In advance of their June in-person meeting, the leaders of the Systems Strengthening Working Group workstreams provided updates on their progress since the last meeting in October 2015. Highlights from the document include: